Will Bricker

Spot on @rebeccakaden about the vibe gap - going from extraction to synthesis is hard. Have you tried context engineering? Providing LLMs w/ some of the context & wisdom your team brings to the table (background & historical information, guidelines & principles, etc.) at the right time and in the right way could help bridge a lot of the vibe gap . I've found it really moves the needle (humans still required).

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Why automated board meeting reporting rules but automated board meeting reporting + human driven hot takes is still the really good stuff. And other things we're learning as we rebuild the @usv OS and discover the edges where AI tools + human ideas need to meet as we rethink what running a thesis driven early stage VC firm means today. More on it below.

@hwchase17 When it comes to coding agents it’s so crucial.

Do people want an “OpenMemory” implementation? We’ve done a lot of work here but my sense is memory is still more of a nice-to-have than a real differentiator…

@mattshumer_ The thing all these coding tools are missing is memory and orchestration. Can’t wait to see what you build!

I’ve been spending the last couple weeks trying to figure out how to give AI a real long-term memory (this is central to an upcoming product we’re building). Really close to getting it right. The product experience this enables is… really insane. Very excited.

@cline This is cline’s super power.

Between tasks, all context gets wiped away. It's like working with a genius who gets amnesia every 15 minutes. We've updated our Memory Bank system to use fewer tokens while maintaining project memory across sessions so Cline has persistent memory. Here's how it works: 🧵

@cline How will this impact memory bank?

New in Cline 3.7.0: The .clinerules folder -- a better way to organize your project rules. Here's how you can implement a modular rules system that transforms how Cline understands your projects: 🧵

@cursor_ai What about the broken Claude thing?

We've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor's UI! We know the little bits of polish and delight matter lots in a tool that you use every day. Details below...

@ditzikow @tmrohan You do the math in 10 years

@tmrohan How do you determine "a top founder" in a batch of hundreds, several weeks into each companies journey?

The founder of a top YC company in the current batch on Venture Capital: "People used to climb Everest and they needed oxygen. Today, people climb it without oxygen. I want to summit Everest and use as little oxygen (VC) as possible." Vibe shift.

@shaoruu @cursor_ai Work with Jupyter notebooks :)

what's one thing you really want added to @cursor_ai composer, or just to cursor in general? open to all kinds of ideas :)

@Nicolascole77 @MindBranches do your thing!

I asked 195,000 people for the best book they read in 2024. These 14 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):🧵

Grateful for the chance to partner with you @dougclinton on @iafunds. Excited for the next bell ringing alongside @InvTechInc!

@PeterJ_Walker Absolutely fabulous work @PeterJ_Walker

New data for VC emerging managers. From a pool of 1,800+ funds, vintage years 2017-2022. Fresh benchmarks on IRR, TVPI, etc, alongside deployment pace, graduation rates, and much more. Link to the full report in the following post 🙏

@vicsingh @EniacVC @Hadley @nihalmehta @timy0ung Congrats Vic

When I co-founded @EniacVC with my friends and partners @Hadley @nihalmehta @timy0ung in 2009, we recognized a unique opportunity to build a new venture capital firm to serve founders at the earliest stage of their journey - seed - which did not exist back then as an institutional asset class.  That moment has arrived again for me. After 15 years of building Eniac, I’m leaving to start a new firm. It’s been an incredible ride taking Eniac from a scrappy startup with a $1.5mm fund to a top-performing VC firm with over $500mm in AUM. I couldn’t be more grateful to my partners, the founders and LPs who chose to work with me over the years. I will continue in an official capacity to serve the portfolio companies I backed.  Looking ahead, I am energized by novel foundational technology - catalyzed by open ecosystems - creating boundless opportunities across the technical stack for decades to come. Stay tuned and mad love to my partners, what a journey!

@alexiskold It’s slightly better than “dear sir or madam”

If you are a CEO and sending an email for Fundraising that says: I am reaching out to you personally... Then I am confused? - Who else if not you would be reaching out? - Or you are reaching out to ME personally? In which case it is obvious - its my inbox.

@rexsalisbury @toptal And you haven't even talked about the downside protection of a SAFE vs a note...Notes are senior to safes (given they are debt) and often come with liquidation preferences.

SAFEs have a flaw. if company never raises equity, note never converts, you never get the equity! this happened w/ @toptal. and investor "got" 10% for $1M via a note that never converted. Toptal is now worth ~$1B. investor have ~$100M reasons to be upset and is suing. This flaw is well known and not really a big deal 99% of time. curious, what are other stories of this happening?

@mattshumer_ @batwood011 github.com/MahmoudAshraf9… or deepgram

How do I detect when someone is done speaking when transcribing with something like Whisper? cc @batwood011

@vedikaja_in You can use gpt/claude with function calling (or just solid prompts). Happy to show you how I used it for founder updates

👋 If you're building a data extraction platform helping companies convert unstructured data into clean, labelled and "synced" datasets and automated workflows, email me at vedika@weekend.fund.

I’ve had a lot of fun working with @JiquanNgiam and testing @Lutra_AI , you should check it out!

@jefielding They use it as a form of capital. They can offer to “signal boost” lps/portcos/founders, tote vanity metrics about “brand reach”, etc. It’s a lot easier than achieving top quartile returns.

Just learned that a big west coast venture fund has 4 content / media people on staff pumping out video and hot takes across channels. Not an agency, full time people. I’m speechless about this whole thing or maybe I’m just living under a rock…🪨

Awesome article featuring the one and only @AndrewBatey nytimes.com/2024/01/13/bus…

@yoheinakajima @UntappedVC Fundraising and investing? The thing that I can’t figure out are how to do the communication tracking and data Enrichment for people?

When starting @untappedvc, the first thing I did was starting to code a custom CRM w automations, until I realized coding wasn’t the best use of any time. No code was picking up, so I switched and built our whole CRM on no code. I lost functionality but it was faster to build. But now that AI can write code for me, I use much less no code. So I started prototyping what my ideal AI first CRM would look like this weekend… (to be continued - not in this thread but later)